1490s in England

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Events from the 1490s in England.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch – Henry VII
  • Regent – Arthur, Prince of Wales (starting 2 October, until 17 November 1492)[1]
  • Parliament – (until 27 February 1490), (starting 17 October 1491, until 5 March 1492), (starting 14 October, until 22 December 1495), (starting 16 January, until 13 March 1497)

Events[]

  • 1490
    • Construction begins on the tower of Magdalen College, Oxford.[2] John Colet receives his M.A. from the college.
    • Perkin Warbeck claims to be the son of King Edward IV of England at the court of Burgundy.
  • 1491
    • November – Perkin Warbeck begins a campaign to take the English throne with a landing in Ireland.[2]
    • 21 December – secures a 5-year peace with Scotland.[2]
    • Henry VII imposes a benevolence (tax).
  • 1492
  • 1493
    • Sanctions imposed on Burgundy for supporting Warbeck.[2]
  • 1494
    • May – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, recognises Warbeck as rightful King of England.[2]
    • John Lydgate's translation The Fall of Princes is published posthumously.[4][5]
  • 1495
    • 16 February – William Stanley, the Lord Chamberlain, executed for supporting Warbeck.[2]
    • 3 July – Battle of Deal: Perkin Warbeck's troops land at Deal, Kent, in support of his claim to the English crown, backed by Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy. They are routed before Warbeck himself can disembark, and he retreats to Ireland and then to Scotland.
    • October
    • Henry VII commissions the world's first dry dock at Portsmouth.
  • 1496
    • 24 February – Henry VII signs the commercial treaty Intercursus Magnus with Venice, Florence and the villes of the Hanse and Pays-Bas.[2]
    • 5 March – King Henry VII issues letters patent to Italian-born adventurer John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to discover unknown lands.[3]
    • 12 June – Jesus College, Cambridge, founded.[2]
    • 21–25 September – James IV of Scotland invades Northumberland in support of the pretender Perkin Warbeck.[3]
    • A public convenience is built on the "Old Welsh Bridge" in Shrewsbury.[7]
  • 1497
  • 1498
    • May
      • Merchant Adventurers granted a trade monopoly with the Netherlands.[2]
      • Cabot leaves Bristol on his second voyage to the Americas; he is never to be seen again.[2]
    • Summer – the final Welsh revolt of the medieval era breaks out in Meirionnydd, North Wales; Harlech Castle is captured by the rebels before the revolt is suppressed.
  • 1499
    • 19 May – 13-year-old Catherine of Aragon, the future first wife of Henry VIII, is married by proxy to his brother, 12-year-old Arthur, Prince of Wales.
    • 23 November – Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English crown, is hanged at Tyburn following an alleged attempt to escape from the Tower of London.[3]
    • 28 November – Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, last legitimate male heir to the House of York, is beheaded for allegedly conspiring in Warbeck's escape.[3]

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References[]

  1. ^ Powicke, F. Maurice; Fryde, E. B., eds. (1961). Handbook of British Chronology (2nd ed.). London: Butler & Tanner Ltd. p. 38.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 135–138. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 189–192. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  4. ^ Kurian, George Thomas (2003). Timetables of World Literature. New York: Facts on File. ISBN 0-8160-4197-0.
  5. ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
  6. ^ "Treason Act 1495, The UK Statute Law Database". Retrieved 2007-12-01.
  7. ^ Blackwall, Anthony (1985). Historic Bridges of Shropshire. Shrewsbury: Shropshire Libraries. ISBN 0-903802-31-7.
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